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Lessons learned? Disasters, rapid change and globalization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2007

Wolf R. Dombrowsky
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Abstract

Comparing the two tsunamis of Lisbon in 1775 and of Asia in 2004, the article analyses the different paradigmatic interpretations of “Western” religious and secular causality. Based on the rational concept of risk making and risk taking, the need to accept failures and their consequences is discussed, as well as the responsibility to develop human strategies for disaster prevention and to foster living conditions which may avoid large-scale suffering.

Type
Catastrophic events
Information
International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 89 , Issue 866: Catastrophic events , June 2007 , pp. 271 - 277
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2007

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